BOOK REVIEWS FROM A CURIOUS MIND: I read a lot. Books and the data/stories contained within them are my oldest friends. Working at the University of Houston allows me to use the M.D. Anderson Library. Awesome! My wife mentioned that I should write up short summaries/observations on the books I've been reading, since people might be interested in reading them, so I did. Comments are welcome.

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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

I really did not know his name was "Rudolf."

Geometry,
Relativity & The Fourth Dimension – Rudy Rucker (1977)

This was Rudy Rucker’s first book, a
non-fiction exploration into the 4th dimension (Time) and the
weirdness that Einstein’s Theories of Relativity brought to light.While it is not as engrossing as his later
books, and does not have the same smart-ass persona that his cyberpunk novels
of the 80’s did, it does help to create visual representations of topics such
as curved space-time, the illusion of the passage of time, etc.I enjoyed the lessons on these topics
although I had read a lot about them before.Mr. Rucker’s descriptions helped me understand these ideas better,
however, and it was interesting to read a book from almost 40 years ago that deals
with topics which are now seen as fairly commonplace as far as theoretical
physics go.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Fourth Dimension.

Rudy Rucker is a great educator and
a master at sharing complex ideas and placing these in a context that a non-mathematician
can comprehend.Not the most “fun” book
I have read, but cool nonetheless.

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